Send me an email (j_zacharias at yahoo dot com) (yes, the address is ironic, I know, but I'm very protective of the email addresses I actually use regularly) and I'll send you an invite.
Bank of Montreal (one of the major Canadian banks) uses Netscape internally, I believe version 4.7 or so. I did tech support there for a while, it was awful.
Yes this is new, because now it's no longer theoretical.
It has been known for some time that WEP has problems. This attack was based on another paper that outlined WEP's weaknesses.
What's new is that these guys went ahead and actually did it, in under a week, including locating the necessary hardware.
They've gone beyond discussion, and demonstrated that WEP is fundamentally flawed.
The Register has a good article on this, according to them M$ referred to "business reasons", not security reasons, in explaining why they aren't shipping a JVM.
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Send me an email (j_zacharias at yahoo dot com) (yes, the address is ironic, I know, but I'm very protective of the email addresses I actually use regularly) and I'll send you an invite.
Bank of Montreal (one of the major Canadian banks) uses Netscape internally, I believe version 4.7 or so.
I did tech support there for a while, it was awful.
Yes this is new, because now it's no longer theoretical. It has been known for some time that WEP has problems. This attack was based on another paper that outlined WEP's weaknesses. What's new is that these guys went ahead and actually did it, in under a week, including locating the necessary hardware. They've gone beyond discussion, and demonstrated that WEP is fundamentally flawed.
The Register has a good article on this, according to them M$ referred to "business reasons", not security reasons, in explaining why they aren't shipping a JVM.